Friday, January 29, 2016

CPE Program email for January 29, 2016

Here are the CPE program announcements for January 29, 2016 

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1. Upcoming Computer Engineering Society (CPEs) Activities
2. Upcoming WISH Activities
3. QL+ (Quality of Life Plus) Club Activities
4. Printed Circuit Board Layout Design Seminar | January 30 | 11:30am | 20-136
5. Engineering Advising Center Events
6. Career Services Update
7. Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative | Deadline February 12, 2016
8. USC Summer Research Experience Presentation
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1. Upcoming Computer Engineering Society (CPEs) Activities

February 4th: CPEs General Meeting | 6pm | 10-225

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2. Upcoming WISH Activities

Mentor/Mentee Serenity Swing Hike
When: Saturday 1/30/15, 2:30pm
Where: Meet at Poly Canyon Road

Start off the weekend with a hike to Cal Poly's Serenity Swing! Bring your mentor or mentee along, or your WISH friends! We will meet in front of the road that leads there on Saturday afternoon!

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WISH Mid-Quarter General Meeting
When: Tuesday 2/2, 11am-12pm
Where: 14-249

Come to our mid-quarter general meeting to hear about what's going on with WISH the rest of the quarter! As always, there will be pizza!

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Valentine's Party
When: Friday 2/5, 6:30pm-9pm
Where: TBA

Come celebrate an early Valentine's Day with WISH! We'll be decorating cookies and watching a movie! Ride share form coming soon

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3. QL+ (Quality of Life Plus) Club Activities
QL+ (Quality of Life Plus) is a multidisciplinary club that specializes in prostheses, medical devices, and assistive technology for wounded veterans and community members. 
Come to our general meeting this Tuesday, February 2nd from 6-7pm in the QL+ lab. We will be working on our Quarterly Design Competition.
Quarterly Design Competition: This quarter's design challenge is to design and build a prototype of a medication management system that assists a user with their daily medication consumption. Join a group and compete to win free dues next quarter, a featured spot on our new website, and a 3D printed trophy!
Workshops

Laser Cutting
Use LASERS to build your own coaster and learn another method of prototyping!
Date: January 31, 10:00am-12:00pm
Email Andre Arguelles at andrenarguelles@gmail.com if you are interested.

Sales Engineering Seminar
Learn methods of professionalism, inter-personal relations, and how to present to people from nontechnical backgrounds.
Date: February 20, 10:00am-12:00pm
Email Andre Arguelles at andrenarguelles@gmail.com if you are interested.

Molding and Lifecasting
Learn how to lifecast and how to create models of organics in biomedical field.
Date: February 27, 10:00am-2:00pm

The deadline for paying dues is this Friday, January 29 at 5pm. As a due paying member you will have access to workshops, projects, and social events. 

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4. Printed Circuit Board Layout Design Seminar | January 30 | 11:30am | 20-136
Hosted by Electric Power Institute & Power and Energy Society
Saturday 01/30/2016, 11:30am - 1:30pm (Lunch provided)
Location: Building 20, Room 136
Presenters:
Jim Tafoya, Printed Circuit Board Designer, Intersil Corporation, Milpitas, California
Lu Li, Test Development Engineer, Intersil Corporation, Milpitas, California
In this seminar, we will focus on the overall flow of the Printed Circuit Board Layout design process, some guidelines, good practices and techniques to avoid costly mistakes and ensure PCB layout success in the future.  
  
1. Design flow - All the key steps from schematics capture to PCB layout
2. ISL6271A Evaluation Board Design As an Example
        a. How to place critical components like decoupling capacitor and inductor
        b. How to guard noisy switching trace
        c. How to determine copper trace current capability for given trace width and copper weight 
        d. How to layout controlled impedance for I2C data and clock traces
        e. How to determine board layer stack-up
3. Some Dos and Don'ts for PCB layout

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5. Engineering Advising Center Events
Engineering Student Success Panel
When: February 2nd, 5:10-6:30pm
Where: Santa Lucia Study Lounge
Description: Hear from a panel of Engineering upperclassman about how to succeed and make the most of your time at Cal Poly. Topics to be covered: -Internships -Study Abroad -Change of Major -Getting involved -Getting through you math and science courses -ask your own questions!

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Cooking in the Canyon
When: February 3rd, 7-8:00pm
Where: PCV Conference Room
Description: Come cook dinner with Dawn and Greg from the Advising Center!

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6. Career Services Update
Want to know which employers coming on campus this quarter to recruit candidates in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Electrical Engineering?  Please note that interview dates are subject to change, and career services will receive additional employer requests as the quarter progresses.  Students can apply on MustangJobs and sign up for on-campus interviews with these employers at the same time.


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7. Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative | Deadline February 12, 2016

The Department of Homeland Security has extended the application deadline for the 2016 to February 12, 2016.  Through this Initiative over 80 student volunteer assignments are available at over 40 local DHS field offices across the country. Interested undergraduate and graduate students may apply via the USAJOBS portal through the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/425296700.

If you have not done so already, please share this opportunity with possible applicants at your institution. Feel free to CMSI@hq.dhs.gov  if you have any questions.

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8. USC Summer Research Experience Presentation
Date: February 5, 2015
Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: 20A Lobby

Learn more about Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). The University of Southern California offers diverse opportunities for hands-on, summer research with world-class faculty. The USC Viterbi School is also home to a wide range of top-ranked Master's and Doctoral Programs in engineering.

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